Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

but also made a bit of

SSSH!

cold wind left Alex's left arm again,

time, Alex's arm

temperature that

left Alex's left arm wasn't as

'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my arm is the same

need to test

with his right arm and pointed it

Just a tiny,

SSSSSHH!

storm coming out of the arm. However, since he had only used a

had formed

face and looked at his arm

probably only heated up by a single

as a reference when cooling something,

now, and if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a

chin as a complicated

on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and my opponent would get a

effect would be different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold environment have a great

desert wouldn't mind a blast of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have some issues with

would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could unleash

some injuries, I can even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless

Alex scratched his chin.

fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me with

and he finally came close

tree and saw an

trees were all destroyed, and many gigantic needles poked out of the

the octopus, seemingly without

one of the tentacles and saw how

tentacles of the octopus, and just its width was

like Alex stood before the fleshy wall

was probably fifty meters long,

the tentacle and walked along with

where the hedgehog was

continued eating, but after some

its head to Alex and sniffed several

a

it was currently munching on the creator and actual owner of the

smelled similar to

He hoped not!

pulled its head

it looked at

back at Alex

the tentacle

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

the hedgehog had severed the tentacle

BANG!

threw the tentacle a couple of meters into